Web Links

The National First Ladies’ Library has a website that offers brief biographies of all the first ladies, including Mary Lincoln. This is an excellent resource for comparing and contrasting the lives and eras of each first lady.

www.firstladies.org/biographies/firstladies.aspx?biography=17

Mr. Lincoln’s White House website is a great resource for understanding the people associated with the Lincoln administration and life in the White House.

www.mrlincolnswhitehouse.org/

Abraham Lincoln Online offers a page on Mary Lincoln’s stay at Bellevue Place in 1875.

www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/sites/bellevue.htm

“Mary Todd Lincoln Research Site” provides images, a chronology and various short essays about her life.

http://rogerjnorton.com/Lincoln15.html

The website for Mary Todd Lincoln House in Lexington, Kentucky, offers images and some contextualization of Mary’s life there.

www.mtlhouse.org/

The National Museum of American History has an online exhibit about one of Mrs. Lincoln’s dresses made by black dressmaker Elizabeth Keckley.

http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_1359703